Senator McCain on MTP
I spent some time watching the interview of Senator John McCain’s on “NBC NEW’S MEET THE PRESS”. I had few thoughts afterward. About party, the war, and politics in general.
link to MTP transcript
If you are a Republican trying to “Casey Jones” the Democrats and change the rules of the Senate so that the President can get every judge he wants. If you take advantage of our majority and use it to pay back every contributor and push everything past the minority. You put yourselves before our party and before our country.
If a Democrat, filibustering every judge that comes across your desk. Spouting terms like Nazi and Gulag to try and make your point on GITMO. Playing politics with the war and failing to support the President. If you think this war is that trivial. You are putting your party before your nation.
If you are right or left wing and you bite on all the wedge issues like abortion and stem cell research or other moral distractions that never die and then vote for President based on these alone. You are putting your ideals before your duty.
If you are a moderate of either party, or an independent, or just a citizen, and you failed to vote for whom you thought might be a good candidate in a primary or general election because of party or laziness. Well just shut up about George Bush and get behind him. For if you had voted John McCain may have been President right now. The far right and left all vote, blame you.
Also for those who bother to read the transcript and I know itÂ’s hard. Just read some. The next President of the U.S.A., uh I mean Senator McCain gives a great example of the manner in which these issues should be dealt with. Some things are just above politics and I think he knows what those things are. LetÂ’s not start playing politics and forgetting there is a war on. That is exactly what the enemy is counting on. ItÂ’s not fair to the people of this country, itÂ’s not fair to the men and women serving and dying, and itÂ’s most unfair to the people of Iraq who are depending on us to stick with them.
I like quotes, so hereÂ’s what I feel is his best one of the interview.
“But you know what I've found out? That every time I've done something for what may have been influenced by political reasons, I've regretted it. Every time that I've done something that I think is right, it's turned out OK in the end. I've got to do what I think is right. And if it offends a certain political constituency, I regret it, but there's really nothing I can do about it.”
Sen. John McCain R, AZ from
“NBC NEW’S MEET THE PRESS” aired 06/19/05.
Another link to the transcript
IÂ’m so jealous of Arizona.
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Posted by: SPQR at June 19, 2005 10:22 PM (xauGB)
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McCAIN, GITMO, AND EICHMANN
McCain was on MTP today; (ASIDE: MTP is one of a several MSM shows hosted by former Democrat operatives; I can't think of ONE hosted by a former GOP operative).
As usual, McCain said some good things and some bad things.
A good thing he said: the prisoners on Gitmo are NOT being mistreated and Durbin MUST apologize.
A bad thing he said: that (paraphrasing) "all the prisoners on Gitmo should have their cases adjudicated - that even Adolph Eichmann had a trial."
Well, Senator: Eichmann's trial - and the trial of ALL the other NAZIS came AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER.
SO MAY IT BE FOR THE DETAINEES AT GITMO: they can be legally held until after the war is over, and they SHOULD BE, TOO!
Until the enemy has capitulated and ceased all hostilities the detainees are potentially future adversaries THE MOMENT they are released.
As for "adjudication": they are enemy combatants, not defendants; the GWOT is a REAL WAR which will last a generation OR MORE; the war must be won by KILLING AND OTHERWISE DESTROYING THE ENEMY AND THEIR WILL TO FIGHT, and it will not be won by sending in the FBI and arresting a few terrorists and having a few trials. CLINTON DID THAT AND IT FAILED!
McCain was most annoying when - like all politically motivated "moderates" - he tried to have his cake and eat it too. ALSO EDIFYING: how many bills he sponsors with Democrat Liberals like Kennedy and Kerry. To some, this may seem bi-partisan; to other more perceptive folks, it's obviously opportunistic. Unfortunately, the bills are ALL BAD: an immigration amnesty bill; a so-called "greenhouse-gas" bill; and a C.A.F.E. standards bill. They're all bi-partisan and they're ALL BAD.
BOTTOM-LINE: McCain is a LIBERAL HAWK. Which is better than a LIBERAL DOVE, but not as good as a conservative hawk.
JAY NORDLINGER heard McCain use this Eichmann analogy in February at DAVOS; here's what Nordlinger reported at NRO:
McCain is a "try 'em or release 'em" man. How you try terrorists nabbed on the Afghan battlefield, he does not venture to say. He does say, "Even Eichmann got a trial," which is one of the cheapest things I have ever heard out of a politician's mouth.
I agree: cheap and WRONG and IMMORAL and.... well you get the idea!
Posted by: reliapundit at June 19, 2005 11:30 PM (fiiCB)
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I think McCain should be run out of the Senate. I will not forgive him for that horrible "campaign finance" law. He will not be president.
Posted by: Defense Guy at June 20, 2005 08:34 AM (jPCiN)
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Here's the proper link, your link was bad:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8245636/
As a pro-war (Afghanistan AND Iraq) Democrat, I registered Republican so my vote would count in the California primary for Senator McCain in 2000, and I would look forward to electing him President in 2008.
Of course, arch-conservatives will point to my post as a reason to vote against him. Oh well, I think a political leader who attracts moderates of both parties and isolates the extreme crazies of both right and left is a very good leader indeed.
Posted by: Eric at June 20, 2005 10:52 AM (umoNu)
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Quothe Eric:
"...a political leader who attracts moderates of both parties and isolates the extreme crazies of both right and left is a very good leader indeed."
True, but we live in extreme times, and there is little room for moderation when you are surrounded, outnumbered, and under attack. Sometimes the extreme crazies are right. Like they say, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't someone out to get you.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at June 20, 2005 11:40 AM (0yYS2)
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I like McCain because he is man enough to admit that the North Vietnamese totally broke him.
What I don't like is that the North Vietnamese broke him.
Of course, I was never captured so don't know what he went through. I do know that many POWs were never broken. This worries me.
Posted by: greyrooster at June 23, 2005 01:18 AM (CBNGy)
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